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Figure 1: PCoA plot showing the similarity of the microbiota’s structure of AA-Chd (green), AT/AL-Chd (red), CON-Chd (blue) for both saliva and biofilm (A) , saliva alone (B) and biofilm alone (C) . The PCoA plots were based on the Morisita-Horn distance. Ellipses represent the 95% confidence ellipse based on a multivariate t-distribution.
Figure 2: Differentially abundant taxa between allergic asthmatic children and age-matched healthy controls. Log2 fold change between AA-Chd and CON-Chd (A) , between AT/AL-Chd and CON-Chd(C) as well as between AA-Chd and AT/AL-Chd (E) . Features were considered significant if their adjusted P -value was <.05 and the fold change was higher than 2. Cladogram showing the most differentially abundant taxa enriched in microbiota from AA-Chd (green) and CON-Chd (blue) (B) , AT/AL-Chd (red) and CON-Chd (blue) (D) as well as AA-Chd (green) and AT/AL-Chd (red) (F). (G) Venn diagram illustrating unique and shared species among child group comparisons.